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Congress should use its power of the purse to assert its authority in foreign policy.

As the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan commences, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin acknowledged that Afghans will face a significant challenge in keeping the Taliban at bay without U.S. troops.

"Not only did [the media] run with [the story], it is remarkable if you take a walk through memory lane, at The New York Times convincing military families, who had their loved ones killed in action, that in fact Russia bounties were probably to blame," McEnany said Friday.

The military exit, Biden said, will begin May 1 and be completed by the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

"The administration decided to abandon U.S. efforts in Afghanistan, which have helped keep radical Islamic terrorism in check," McConnell said. "And bizarrely, they've decided to do so by September the 11th."

According to the Associated Press, Biden is scheduled to announce the delayed withdrawal date in the upcoming days, and will set the date as the 20th anniversary of the September 11 attacks.

The Doha agreement struck in February between the Taliban and the U.S. was intended to allow the drawdown of foreign forces by May 2021.

Families of U.S. soldiers killed in Afghanistan have called for an investigation into claims their deaths were due to a bounty scheme funded by Russia.

The president's plans to remove more than 9,500 U.S. troops from Germany could threaten stability in Europe.

U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Sunday told reporters that U.S. troops are not leaving the Middle East and that the fight against the Islamic State (ISIS) will continue.

The new policy is effective October 29, 2019.

"The retreat from Syria announced by our American friends cannot make us deviate from our strategic objective—eradicating Daesh," the French president said.

"The caliphate has crumbled and ISIS has been defeated," the vice president said hours after the apparent suicide attack.

The White House ordered 80 combat-equipped troops to Gabon over concerns related to violence in the neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo.

"What [presidents] don't do is politicize the event, and unfortunately, as we saw some of the commentary by the president today, that's exactly what he did," retired Lieutenant General Mark Hertling told CNN.

Hundreds of migrants have taken shelter in a sports stadium in the Mexican capital.

"Refusing to deliver donated Christmas trees to soldiers serving abroad is straight out of the Grinch's playbook and flies in the face of Christmas spirit," New York Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer said in a press release.

The U.S. military currently has around 14,000 troops in Afghanistan.

Retired lieutenant general said troops do not want to hear about the economy on Thanksgiving. "They want to hear, 'Hey thanks,'" he said.

The U.S. currently has around 62,000 troops in Europe.

The used Adelaide frigates could cost Poland as much as $700 million.

A jury found Ibrahim Suleiman Adnan Adam Harun, known by the nom de guerre Spin Ghul, guilty of all counts.

Votel said a strategy was still being developed and did not give details on the number of troops that would be required or when a final decision would be made.

Proponents of the option said it would provide U.S. commanders on the ground greater flexibility to quickly respond to unforeseen opportunities and challenges on the battlefield.

"I don't foresee us bringing in large numbers of coalition troops, mainly because what we're doing is, in fact, working," Townsend told a Pentagon news briefing.

Trump has offered little clarity about whether he might approve more forces for Afghanistan, where some 8,400 U.S. troops remain more than 15 years after the Islamist Taliban government was toppled by U.S.-backed Afghan forces.

Reducing troops would repeat the rise of the Islamic State in Iraq, Senator John McCain predicts.

The Baltic Saber Strike exercise will take troops from Germany to Estonia.

Washington will deploy about 200 additional troops, mostly as advisers, as Iraqi soldiers advance towards Mosul.

The State Department has designated ISIS's offshoot in Afghanistan as a foreign terrorist organization.